P.T. Barnum famously said, “There's a sucker born every minute.”
And now I just made you a sucker, because you believed that. As it turns out, Barnum almost certainly did not say that; it was a Syracuse businessman/huckster by the name David Hannum. (The story behind it involves a cigar manufacturer, a pair of fake giants, and a defamation lawsuit.)
The sucker in this story – well, the willing sucker, so really, not a sucker at all, but someone trying to shine a light on a questionable sportsbook practice in an effort to get others to stop being suckers – is Steve Brubaker, an Illinois lobbyist for the horse racing industry and fond watcher of all things gambling related.
Brubaker came across an article that quoted a member of the FanDuel team. Brubaker can't recall exactly which article it was, but one item stuck out to him: that 42% of FanDuel's handle comes from the app’s home page.